14–17 Oct 2019

Mohamed Fawzy
Senior Manager and Tech Lead, Facebook

Mohamed Fawzy is senior manager and tech lead at Facebook. In his six years at the company, he’s worked on its distributed storage system and was part of the team that developed cold storage, Facebook’s exabyte archiver storage system that keeps your memories safe. More recently, he started the Distributed Training Group to build large-scale distributed training infrastructure for deep learning.

Sessions

10:00–10:15 Wednesday, 16 October 2019

Location: King's Suite

Large-scale machine learning at Facebook: Implications of platform design on developer productivity

Secondary topics: Deep Learning tools, Machine Learning tools

Kim Hazelwood (Facebook), Mohamed Fawzy (Facebook)

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AI plays a key role in achieving Facebook's mission of connecting people and building communities. Nearly every visible product is powered by machine learning algorithms at its core, from delivering relevant content to making the platform safe. Kim Hazelwood and Mohamed Fawzy explain how applied ML has continued to change the landscape of the platforms and infrastructure at Facebook. Read more.